Why don't people care for arthouse and indie anime...

Why don't people care for arthouse and indie anime? The entire avant-garde scene is underwatched and underrated not just by Any Forums, but anime "fans" in general. There's an entire microcosm of young students and old directors that have been creating interesting boundary pushing stuff entirely separate from whatever the industry has been churning out for years and years. To all the pseuds who are tired of all the formulaic stuff yet still decide to stick around, why are you so inept that you never chose to seek out this scene? I find these shorts and music videos much more rewarding than the vast majority of series and films from an artistic and technical perspective. Anime today is way more creative and experimental than memeshit decades like the 80s and 90s.

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Every medium has a massive number of outsiders making tons of stuff. Most of it is garbage and not many people are interested in taking the time to sift through it.

Because the scene is fucking impenetrable if you don't speak the language, dummy

i enjoy stuff like that and watch it, but its not as easy to get around as the mainstream stuff. i think not everyone wants to actively look for them.

also its just like with short and indie movies or underground comics. theres always a scene for indie stuff, and it will always be more creative/pushing because it doesnt have to care for income as much. making a business like you have to out of a creative medium will kill interesting things and make everything more mainstream smooth.

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Probably because arthouse and indie anime are barely promoted. They have almost no advertising budget, are usually not on streaming services, and typically don't have weekly release schedules to keep online discussion alive. In the case of music vids, YouTube's algorithm probably penalizes them for not being tied to major labels. A lot of stuff by young creators without ties to established studios is only screened at local film festivals, or hard to find online if you're not personally in touch with artists who tip you about names and search terms.

Most of that also applies to Western arthouse and indie animation, but anime has the language barrier on top of that, as says.

I watched The Diary of Tortov Roddle and Shitcom, of the two the latter was superior.
Anyway, after that I decided to stick to real anime.

I guess it just frustrates me that people think anime today is creatively bankrupt which I can somewhat understand, yet refuse to put in any effort to actually seek out the interesting things that are happening underneath. ON-GAKU for example was a stellar film, one of the best anime of the 10s period, that went unnoticed despite the years of hard work that went into it. Most anons also had no idea Cencoroll 2 came out. People want everything spoonfed to them in the form of charts or some shit man, it's sad.

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>Why do niche, unadvertised/underadvertised titles have less viewers
Gee, a question for the ages

I don’t mean this is a derogatory way I swear, but are you young? Popular stuff isn’t popular because it’s everyone’s favorite, it’s popular because the largest number of people can vibe with it, and because it’s heavily advertised. Almost by definition, indie/arthouse works are not as accessible as the major pop productions, and this is true in every medium. They describe situations that are more uncommon or are sometimes incredibly personal, so it’s harder to people to identify with.

With those kinds of works, of COURSE the viewership is going to be limited. Works like that aren’t intended to be major box offices smashes from the get go.

It will probably serve you better if you try to introduce the stuff you want to see to people who might be interested rather than being upset people aren’t into it already. Consider how successful gekiga user was at introducing the genre to this board by doing regular storytimes.

You might also find some success with a smaller group dedicated to these kinds of works. I started a local manga club with a few friends who’s opinions I trust—we each pick something for a month, read it, and then discuss it when we meet up in person.

The moment these kinds of works find major financial success and popularity, it will be because they changed what they were to appeal to a wider group. That’s just the way things are.

And I mentioned this briefly, but advertisement is of course a major factor. People here absolutely DO explore niche titles, but when something isn’t a big popular title with ads and influencers guiding people to it, of course it’s less likely to be found. When people go out to explore on their own and find new things, they are not going to come up with the same titles, things are going to be more spread out. It’s just statistics at that point.